Change group gid for new group

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I have added a new group to my system, which I will add my user to, so my UID/GIDs are sync'ed with my company's server when using NFS (fixing write permission issues).

I've created a new 'production' group but when I try to change the GID, usermod complains it cannot find the GID I'm referring to:

$ getent group production
production:x:1002:
$ sudo groupmod -g 32783 1002
groupmod: group '1002' does not exist

I'm confused, why can it not find this gid?

Thanks for the mark down, I read the command from here which incorrectly says NEWGID OLDGID http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/33844/change-gid-of-a-specific-group — Greg K, Dec 24 '13 at 18:13

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 24 '13 at 18:09

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Because you need to specify the name of the group...

sudo groupmod -g 32873 production

answered Dec 24 '13 at 18:09

Dennis Kaarsemaker

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